Chapter 59: Charcoal Burning
Three days later, thanks to the efforts of the people, a wooden fence of more than 100 square meters was erected.
With the protection of the wall, people can finally breathe a sigh of relief, in this age of barbarism, a simple wall can distinguish civilization from barbarism.
In addition to the flood beasts, which can pose a threat to humans, the rest of the world is a large number of mosquitoes.
There are a lot of mosquitoes by the lake, and they are not obvious on the grassland, but when they get here, people are annoyed by the mosquitoes flying around, but the insects in this world are one size bigger than the original world, and every mosquito here is five or six centimeters long, such a big mosquito, as long as people are not blind, under normal circumstances, this thing will not suck blood.
But at night, after people are asleep, these nasty guys will keep flying around to disturb people's rest, especially private parts, if they are patronized when they sleep at night, that feeling Wang Lang really can't be described with two words: sour.
In order to protect his little brother from being bitten when he was sleeping, Wang Lang had to use wild grass to make a grass skirt around his waist, although it was a little uncomfortable, but compared to being bitten by insects, it felt a lot better.
When other people saw that this method could prevent mosquitoes and insects, and it looked very beautiful, they all followed Wang Lang's example and put a grass skirt around their waists.
Whenever he watched people constantly twisting their bodies in front of the fire and shaking their husks, Wang Lang thought with bad taste, is this how the legendary hula appeared, but a group of dirty half-naked men danced the hula, this picture Wang Lang really couldn't bear to look at directly,
At night, the cool breeze gusts, and the well-fed and well-fed people lie on the burned bare land, looking up at the starry sky, there is an indescribable comfort.
But this beautiful atmosphere was soon interrupted by a buzzing sound, a swarm of mosquitoes flying from nowhere, flying around the people.
Although he didn't get bitten by such a big mosquito, the buzzing sound of flying around made people extremely irritable, and Wang Lang, who couldn't bear it anymore, made people start a fire inside the fence and pressed the damp weeds on the fire, and he planned to smoke away these damn mosquitoes.
It didn't take long for billowing smoke to rise on the fire, so much smoke, not to mention mosquitoes, even Wang Lang and the others were smoked snot and tears flowed out, and they ran towards the upwind where the smoke could not be smoked.
As the smoke cleared and the buzz around was gone, Wang Lang didn't know whether he drove those mosquitoes away or smoked them to death, but no matter which one he had, he could finally get a good night's sleep tonight.
Without mosquitoes to disturb, people sat on the ground and discussed their future plans with Wang Lang.
"Lang, what are we going to do here in the future, planting corn or cutting down trees." Fire asked.
Wang Lang shook his head and said, "Just grow corn there, I said before that the main purpose of this residence is to make tools and weapons. ”
"So what are we going to do? Clay pots, or spears?" Someone asked.
Wang Lang pondered for a while and said: "Although these are also done, they are not the main thing, as for what I can't say now, I just have a general idea in my head, as for whether I can succeed, I am not sure, if I can succeed, it will be of great help to our tribe." ”
Hearing that it is good for the tribe, people don't care what Wang Lang's specific thoughts are, everything Wang Lang did before made them instinctively think that as long as it is something that Wang Lang cares about, it must be very useful, as for what is made, Wang Lang will naturally explain to them after doing it well, they don't need to think so much at all, just do what they do.
Huo opened his mouth and said: "Lang, you are a person who has been guided by the gods, your ideas must be reasonable, we have the strength, as for what work to do, you can just say." ”
Wang Lang smiled and said, "Okay, since you believe in me so much, I won't let everyone's efforts be in vain." ”
Kong Yi, Kong Er showed off the muscles on his body, and stammered: "Eat, work!" ”
People were amused by the funny appearance of these two people, and after laughing for a while, Wang Lang barely stopped his smile and said, "Okay, let's rest early, tomorrow may be very tired." ”
Without mosquitoes, people slept very soundly this night, and when they got up in the morning to breathe in the fresh air, they suddenly felt refreshed.
The benefits of agriculture are now manifested, with stable food, the labor force has been greatly liberated, if it was the original fishing and hunting life, Wang Lang would not have time to waste on these things.
Wang Lang's plan is to build this place into a handicraft base, although no copper ore has been found now, but Wang Lang wants to prepare in advance, copper ore or iron ore must be found, but it is not an easy thing to melt copper, if you want to smelt copper ore, you must use charcoal and blast furnace, but how to make high-quality charcoal stumped Wang Lang, he only knows the theory, never really practiced, fortunately there are a large number of trees here can be used for experiments, And there is no one from the environmental protection department in this world, and he goes to drink tea because of this.
As for the difficult things like blast furnaces, Wang Lang had only seen some vague introductions before, and if he wanted to make it successful, he could only experiment repeatedly.
Burning charcoal, even if it can't smelt copper, these charcoal are used to burn bricks, and the calorific value of charcoal is much higher than that of ordinary wood, and the quality of the fired pottery will be much better than the previous shoddy production.
Wang Lang knew that if he wanted to make high-quality charcoal, he had to build a charcoal kiln, but now that he didn't even have a single brick, he no longer had to think about the complex kiln.
The so-called charcoal is the wood raw material after incomplete combustion and then isolated from the air for stuffy making, after breakfast, Wang Lang according to this principle let people dig a diameter of one meter, the depth of more than one meter in the wall, if the pit is sealed on the top is a simple charcoal kiln.
After a few more days of preparation, Wang Lang built a small pottery kiln and fired a few pottery slabs to seal the top, while others cut down a large amount of wood and piled it up outside the fence to dry in the past few days.
After the firewood was dry, Wang Lang threw the wood cut into small pieces and threw it into the burning fire in the pit, and when all the wood began to burn, Wang Lang had the pit capped with several fired pottery plates.
As the air in the pit decreased, the flames visible to the naked eye disappeared, the billowing smoke drifted into the air along the cracks in the top of the pit, and the occasional burst of wood proved that the flames had not been extinguished, and Wang Lang knew that the next time was only to wait patiently.